Across

1. Foundation; base or basic principle

5. Roundish projection, as of a leaf

7. Former small state in central India

8. Akira Kurosawa’s filmic masterwork

9. State; assert

10. The river that flows by Jammu

11. Lyric poem

12. India’s premier body of philosophers (inits.)

14. Gambling city in Nevada

16. Supreme authority or powder

Down

1. Wrong notions or arguments

2. What old type pens used to have

3. Not the beginning

4. Region; area

6. Mistake; fallacy

7. Bury

13. Young dog

15. Age; period